Employees work on stent graft components in a sterile environment at the Medtronic assembly plant in Tijuana, Mexico. David Maung | Bloomberg | Getty Images Medtronic reported a nearly 20% drop in quarterly profit on Thursday, hurt by lower sales in its cardiac and vascular business that makes heart valves and stents. Net income attributable

The logo of the 3D printer manufacturer HP is seen during the event. Feria de Barcelona hosts the third edition of the (3D) industry week. Paco Freire | LightRocket | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Shares of HP Inc. rose more than 1% in extended trading after the software

Investors trying to get a gauge on the state of U.S.-China trade relations should look at shares of big chipmakers like Qualcomm, Micron Technology and Broadcom, according to Ned Davis Research. The firm points out that Qualcomm had 67% of its 2018 revenue come from China, while Micron saw 57.1% of its sales come from

Caiaimage/Trevor Adeline | Getty Images When it comes to clients who own permanent life insurance with cash value, financial advisors have both an asset and a liability. On the one hand, clients appreciate having a financial advisor who can analyze the contract and ensure that it still meets their goals. “It’s a perfect way to

Some days it can seem like we are experiencing the worst of polarized politics with no end in sight. But despite this polarization, members of Congress in both chambers and both parties seem eager to advance retirement savings legislation. There are two large looming retirement bills – the Senate’s RESA and the House’s SECURE Act

O’Shares Chairman Kevin O’Leary visits the trading floor after ringing the New York Stock Exchange opening bell. The cast member of television’s “Shark Tank” program was marking the recent launch of the O’Shares FTSE US Quality Dividend ETF. (Photo by AP/Richard Drew) Kevin O’Leary is Chairman of O’Shares Investments, but you probably know him as

Mario Batali Getty Images Celebrity chef Mario Batali is being charged with indecent assault and battery, more than a year after admitting to sexual misconduct. Batali has faced civil litigation, but this is the first time that he has been criminally charged for sexual misconduct. He is scheduled to be arraigned in Boston Municipal Court

Best Buy beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly same-store sales on Thursday, as the consumer electronics retailer sold more wearables and tablets and signed up more people to its subscription-based tech support services. Best Buy’s overall same-store sales rose 1.1% in the first quarter ended May 4. Analysts on average had expected a 0.9% increase,

The “Fast Money ” traders shared their first moves for the market open. Tim Seymour was a buyer of McDonald’s. Karen Finerman was a buyer of Target. Steve Grasso was a buyer of Walmart. Brian Kelly was a seller of the Oil & Gas Exploration and Production ETF. Trader disclosure: Steve Grasso is long stock AAPL,

Customers look at products in an Apple store in Beijing on December 11, 2018. Greg Baker | AFP | Getty Images Huawei is winning over more and more Apple fans in China as the escalated trade tensions stoked “nationalist sentiment,” according to the South China Morning Post. China’s consumers are increasingly favoring their domestic brands

fstop123 | E+ | Getty Images Life is financially complicated for many U.S. military troops and their families. Almost half of service members are under the age of 25, and a high percentage are married with children. They don’t get paid a lot and they must deploy repeatedly to difficult places, many times where their

ASSOCIATED PRESS Beijing wants to apply the Duterte Model of finding a solution to its South China Sea disputes with Malaysia. Negotiating a bilateral deal with Kuala Lumpur, that is, rather than a multilateral deal that could involve all countries having an interest in the region. That’s according to an article that appeared in The

I remember my first listing appointment like it was yesterday. I was 18 years old and the seller was a sweet elderly lady who wanted to sell her home in a gated community that I’d never been to before. The day before my appointment, I drove around to every property in her neighborhood that was

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin For anyone with employees, paying employment taxes is inevitable. You withhold taxes from employee pay, and send the money to the IRS. The taxes are withheld from wages and are supposed to be promptly paid to the government. This is trust fund money that belongs to the government, and no matter how good a

United States Capitol Building, Washington DC, Getty In the past decade, the same proposed law has been repeatedly re-introduced in the U.S. Congress to make it easier for victims of age discrimination to sue discriminatory employers. Every year that proposed law, Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act (POWADA), dies an ignominious death. Will this year

“PropTech AI won’t be able to immediately fill the shoes of an estate agent.” Starline Art / 123rf PropTech is hardly a new industry; estate agents and other businesses in the property industry have been digitally transforming for decades. Search portals, such as Rightmove in the UK, started amalgamating available properties and recommending homes over

CNBC’s Jim Cramer continues to suggest that investors should own Apple’s stock and not trade it, even as the company weathers the storm of the prolonged trade war. “You need to strap yourself to the mast if you’re gonna hold onto this one, as we’ve done for my charitable trust,” the “Mad Money” host said